Extended Clinical Practitioner

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Fareham; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in England is seeking an Extended Clinical Practitioner to lead integrated patient care within multidisciplinary teams. The role includes patient assessments, diagnosis, and ensuring quality care while managing complex situations. Candidates should hold a relevant professional qualification and have a strong commitment to delivering person-centred care. Salary ranges from £47,810 to £54,710 annually, with flexible working options available.

Qualifications

• Must be registered with NMC or HCPC.
• Hold level 7 Clinical History Taking & Physical Examination.
• Demonstrate leadership and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient-centred care and monitor interventions.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and ensure quality care.
• Develop relationships with all stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical reasoning

Communication

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Professional qualification (nursing or allied health professional)

Degree level award

Independent non-medical prescribing qualification

Tools

Clinical documentation systems

Data analysis software

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Extended Clinical Practitioner - Urgent Community Response

The closing date is 08 February 2026

The Extended Clinical Practitioner role within the Integrated Neighbourhood Team, in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues and specifically, GP's, Practice Nurses and Social Care professionals, will lead and facilitate a patient or client focused, co-ordinated case management approach across primary and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital.

Along with using a medical model to assess, diagnose and prescribe for acute medical conditions, the clinician will use a holistic approach to consider methods and interventions to prevent recurrence of problems and complete referrals to appropriate members of the wider multidisciplinary team, attending the INT whiteboard meeting where appropriate, or referring directly to services such as older persons mental health, physiotherapy or occupational therapy. The instigation of investigations to assist with diagnosis and review of chronic conditions would also be within the clinicians' competencies such as blood tests, ECG and spirometry.

The role will include the provision of strong leadership to the team, including day to day leadership responsibilities, development and creative leadership, responsive leadership, enabling the team to achieve a well led culture.

Please note - this role will cover the whole of South East Hampshire.

Main duties of the job

• Provide patient centred care.
• Monitor, review and evaluate care interventions to ensure optimum quality is maintained.
• Inform clinical manager of any concerns regarding patients, relatives, visitors or staff that may compromise patients care.
• Develop and maintain constructive working relationships and liaise effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team so that patients' needs are met.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients and carers so that information is shared in order to meet patients' needs in accordance with data sharing protocols.
• Act as a role model in the promotion of person-centred practice, and challenge practice, which is not person-centred, so that a person-centred culture is maintained.
• Keep updated with relevant clinical developments and use knowledge to enhance standards of care.
• Practice, role model and promote safe and effective extended skills in all area of clinical practice.
• Practice, role model and promote safe and effective recording in line with trust policies and professional standards.
• Encourage a culture of patient wellness and coproduction.
• Demonstrate care, compassion, competence, effective communication, courage and commitment with all patients and carers.
• Ensure patients with palliative care needs and their families have those needs met.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• *Appropriate professional qualification (nursing or allied health professional) that allows registration with the NMC or HCPC
• *Professional UK registration e.g. NMC / HCPC
• *Degree level award
• *Independent non-medical prescribing or pharmacology level 7 profession relevant qualification.
• *Holds level 7 Clinical History Taking & Physical Examination
• *Holds level 7 Diagnostics and Decision making
• *Able to demonstrate a good command of the English Language both written and verbal
• *Computer Literate in both data entry and communicating via IT - emails and report
• *Teaching and Assessing qualification or equivalent/ mentorship qualification.

Experience

• *Detailed knowledge of current clinical and professional issues relevant to the field.
• *Evidence of developing ability to perform multidisciplinary tasks and work across multi disciplinary boundaries.
• *Evidence of participation in development of clinical practice, starting to be supported by advanced theoretical, practical knowledge and skills.
• *Decision making that is working towards advanced level, to inform clinical reasoning approaches when managing complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
• *High level planning, leadership and communication skills, including the ability to prioritise competing tasks in a highly complex and dynamic environment.
• *Ability to develop positive relationship with a range of internal and external stakeholders
• *Engagement in evaluation, audit or research activity
• *Confidence in the application and analysis of data.
• *Demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values
• *Specialist clinical skills appropriate to the relevant speciality with ability to have competencies as an ACP in the speciality signed off within the traineeship.
• *Organisational and self management skills including those relating to own workload and those of others in an unpredictable environment
• *Good communication skills including; to communicate complex, sensitive or confidential information in an appropriate manner; to liaise effectively; to understand and disseminate multifaceted information
• *Understanding of effective clinical governance including implications, quality and audit
• *Evidence of the ability to deliver learning sessions (formal or informal) to groups of professionals
• *Applies a good understanding of Equality & Diversity in all areas of work
• *Self-motivated with the ability to work towards developing a high degree of autonomy to deliver a range of complex priorities in a timely fashion for the benefit of the population we serve.
• *To have the ability to apply emotional intelligence/self awareness to situations whilst maintaining professionalism to affect change.
• *A role model for all staff aspiring to achieve advanced clinical level working
• *Emerging engagement in forging sustainable, productive relationships at all levels within the local, regional, and national health and care economy.
• *Committed to partnership working with patient and carers at all levels to ensure their views are incorporated into service delivery.
• *Flexibility to work across the trust geographical localities where required.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearPlease note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata